19 Jan
2009
19 Jan
'09
2:05 p.m.
-- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
Actually, I would be more likely to suspect the current crop of
engineering *managers* as a more likely cause (both pointy-haired
and not). "My gawd, boy, those extra bits add $0.10 to our build
cost! Do we really need that for the product to meet spec?"
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Alas my
expeerience suggests the reverse. Back when computers were
expensive, and chips were expensive, the manufacutrers took the >>trouble
to put all sorts of protectinon in their machines to protect said
expensive decices in the event of a failure. Now they don't bother.
I would suspect that a younger crop of engineers coming up might have >some bearing on
this too. :-) 
20 Jan
20 Jan
6:26 a.m.
On Monday 19 January 2009 05:05:33 pm jeff.kaneko at juno.com wrote:
-- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at
verizon.net> wrote:
Actually, I would be more likely to suspect the current crop of
engineering *managers* as a more likely cause (both pointy-haired
and not). "My gawd, boy, those extra bits add $0.10 to our build
cost! Do we really need that for the product to meet spec?"
You're probably right. The Earl Muntz approach carried to exremes...
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Alas my
expeerience suggests the reverse. Back when computers were
expensive, and chips were expensive, the manufacutrers took the
I would suspect that a younger crop of engineers coming up might have
>some bearing on this too. :-) >trouble to put all sorts of protectinon in
their machines to protect
said expensive decices in the event of a failure. Now
they don't bother.
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